The http://www.olympiagreenfuels.com/ really seem like they are trying to take advantage of an obvious technology being touted as a “new quick fix” to or global energy crisis. But hey, that’s what capitalism is. He most likely got his idea from watching the presidents or Willie Nelsons promo (see link below).

Biodiesel "fun fact"Neil Young, Willie Nelson, President George W. Bush and Senator Jim Talent (R-MO) are all featured in this Biodiesel Promotional video which has been produced by the team behind the documentary film, 3min 46sec - Quick Time movie

Jun 27, 2005

Virtually unique in the animal kingdom, with a saga steeped in science and popular imagination, the fabulous Coelacanth ("see-la-kanth"), that 400 million year old "living fossil" fish, paddles on. Pre-dating the dinosaurs by millions of years and once thought to have gone extinct with them, 65 million years ago, the Coelacanth with its "missing link" "proto legs" was "discovered" alive and well in 1938! At least three people have perished in the quest for the coelacanth, and possibly several others. Read all about it- including the latest efforts to protect the creature, and its pop-up appearances in "out of the way" places. Click in the navbar to the left. Check the News and Recent History sections and don't miss a visit to the Coelashop for t-shirts and other "Coela-gear." Our favorite "Dinofish" is "age-free" and never boring! (In case you think conservation is dull, we put some of our best stuff on that page.)

The web site of the Coelacanth Rescue Mission, a project under the direction of Jerome F. Hamlin to raise Coelacanth awareness. Your feedback is welcome.http://www.dinofish.com/

Jun 24, 2005

From computer monitoring and telephone taping to video surveillance and GPS satellite tracking, employers increasingly are using policy and technology to manage productivity and protect resources. To motivate employee compliance, companies increasingly are putting teeth in technology policies. Fully 26% have fired workers for misusing the Internet; 25% have terminated employees for e-mail misuse; and 6% have fired employees for misusing office phones.

When it comes to workplace computer use, employers are primarily concerned about inappropriate Web surfing, with 76% monitoring workers’ Website connections. Fully 65% of companies use software to block connections to inappropriate Websites—a 27% increase since 2001 when AMA and ePolicy Institute last surveyed electronic monitoring and surveillance policies and procedures in the workplace. Computer monitoring takes various forms, with 36% of employers tracking content, keystrokes and time spent at the keyboard. Another 50% store and review employees’ computer files. Companies also keep an eye on e-mail, with 55% retaining and reviewing messages.

Employers are doing a good job of notifying employees when they are being watched. Of those organizations that engage in monitoring and surveillance activities, fully 80% inform workers that the company is monitoring content, keystrokes and time spent at the keyboard; 82% let employees know the company stores and reviews computer files; 86% alert employees to e-mail monitoring; and 89% notify employees that their Web usage is being tracked.

Jun 20, 2005

President Bush argued Wednesday that consumers paying high gas prices won't stand for inaction on energy legislation, even though some lawmakers say nothing they can do would immediately ease the problem.

"My advice is, they ought to keep this in mind: Summer's here, temperatures are rising and tempers will really rise if Congress doesn't pass an energy bill," said Bush, who pressured lawmakers to get an energy bill to his desk before the August recess.

"The American people know that an energy bill will not change the price of gas immediately," he said, "but they're not going to tolerate inaction in Washington as they watch the underlying problems grow worse."

The president outlined his four-point plan to reduce high energy prices:Promote conservation; produce and refine more crude oil in the United States;develop alternative sources of energy, such as renewable ethanol or biodiesel;and help other nations, such as China, to become more energy-efficient to reduce global demand for energy.

He said it was time for the United States to expand its nuclear power capacity.

Jun 16, 2005

'More than 60 percent of the American people don't trust the press.Why should they?They've been reading "The Da Vinci Code" and marveling at its historical insights. I have nothing against a fine thriller, especially one that claims the highest of literary honors: it's a movie on the page. But "The Da Vinci Code" is not a work of nonfiction. If one more person talks to me about Dan Brown's crackerjack research I'm shooting on sight.'

Kinsley takes as his model Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia to which anyone can contribute, and which grows by accretion and consensus. Relatedly, it takes as its premise the idea that "facts" belong between quotation marks. It's a winning formula; Wikipedia is one of the Web's most popular sites.

I asked a teenager if he understood that it carries a disclaimer; Wikipedia "can't guarantee the validity of the information found here." "That's just so that no one will sue them," he shrugged.

As to the content: "It's all true, mostly."

What is new is our odd, bipolar approach to fact.We have a fresh taste for documentaries. Any novelist will tell you that readers hunger for nonfiction, which may explain the number of historical figures who have crowded into our novels.

A growing trend finds firms policing their workers' off-duty behavior, alarming employees and worker rights groups. Recent cases include a worker being fired for displaying a political bumper sticker on her car and a casino that claims the right to fire waitresses and servers for putting on too much weight. "The shock is that there's no legal protection," a spokesman for The National Workrights Institute said. USA TODAY

"It's a growing trend," "But whether or not they will go further to protect workers is an open question."

Jun 13, 2005

"Virtually every scientific agency in the U.S. government has been shaken at its foundation by the substitution of pseudoscience for scientific investigation. If our government is to make sound public policy, true scientific investigation must be allowed and encouraged to flourish untainted by political agendas, industry pressure and the pseudoscience these pressures breed. The U.S. Congress and President must stop sacrificing sound science for shortsighted political agendas and must stop substituting true scientific research with pseudoscience."

EXAMPLE of a pseudoscience orginization (always read between the lines)

"The Greening Earth Society," was established by the Western Fuels Association, a cooperative owned by seven coal-burning utilities. The Greening Earth Society is a think tank dedicated to the idea that increasing amounts of CO2 produced by burning of fossil fuels is good for the environment. The research is based upon a predetermined result, a violation of the scientific method .

Jun 12, 2005

The famous PBS commentator Robert X. Cringely has come up with the theory that Apple's decision to use Intel processors is nothing less than an attempt to dethrone Microsoft.

This is what he says:OS X 10.4 – Tiger – is a 64-bit OS, remember, yet Intel's 64-bit chips – Xeon and Itanium – are high buck items aimed at servers, not iMacs.

So is Intel going to do a cheaper Itanium for Apple or is Apple going to pretend that 64-bit never existed? Yes to both is my guess.

Why announce this chip swap a year before it will even begin for customers?This announcement has to cost Apple billions in lost sales as customers inevitably decide to wait for Intel boxes.

Then what is the driving force?

Microsoft. Intel hates Microsoft. For Intel to keep growing, people have to replace their PCs more often and Microsoft's bloatware strategy just isn't making that happen, especially if they keep delaying Longhorn.

This isn't a story about Intel gaining another three percent market share at the expense of IBM; it is about Intel taking back control of the desktop from Microsoft. So Intel buys Apple and works with their OEMs to get products out in the market.

That's the story unfolding. Steve Jobs finally beats Bill Gates.

And with the sale of Apple to Intel, Steve accepts the position of CEO of the Pixar/Disney/Sony Media Company.’

Jun 5, 2005

Protect yourself from a discrimination lawsuitEven "at-will" employees, those who "can be fired at any time, for almost any reason," have some protected rights when it comes to their employment status, says small-business expert and columnist Steve Strauss, with the most important protection being that a worker can't be fired on the basis of their color, sex, religion, age, ethnic background or disability. To protect your business from employment discrimination claims:

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